It has long been a goal to put realistic prototypes or models into system developer's hands as soon as possible. This has been accomplished with FPGAs, C language models and sometimes co-simulation ...

The June 2003 release of SystemVerilog 3.1 integrates testbench automation capabilities and temporal assertions into an enhanced version of Verilog. It eliminates many of Verilog's past limitations, ...

Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...

Faster runtime performance, real-time access to built-in Verilog simulation coverage metrics, and a unified graphical environment for waveform analysis are all ...